Iconic Photographers: Walker Evans

Jan 24, 2025

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Group of People at Mealtime in Flood Refugee Camp, Forrest City, Arkansas, USA, Walker Evans, U.S. Resettlement Administration, March 1936 Copyright: xCircaxImagesx ghi-circa02307
HAVANA: COAL LOADER, 1933. Portrait of a coal loader in Havana, Cuba. Photograph by Walker Evans, 1933. Copyright: xGRANGERx xGRANGERx 0908638
CIVIL WAR MONUMENT, 1936. Vicksburg Battlefield Monument depicting Brigadier General Lloyd Tilghman, killed 16 May 1863 during the Battle of Champion Hill, Mississippi. Photograph by Walker Evans, 1936. Copyright: xGRANGERx xGRANGERx 0908636
FLOOD REFUGEES, 1937. The kitchen tent at a flood refugee camp in Forrest City, Arkansas. Photograph by Walker Evans, February 1937. Copyright: xGRANGERx xGRANGERx 0325856
ARKANSAS: FLOOD CAMP, 1937. Washing up facilities in a camp for white flood refugees at Forrest City, Arkansas. Photograph by Walker Evans, February 1937. Copyright: xGRANGERx xGRANGERx 0325579
ARKANSAS: FLOOD CAMP, 1937. Setting up a tent in a camp for white flood refugees at Forrest City, Arkansas. Photograph by Walker Evans, February 1937. Copyright: xGRANGERx xGRANGERx 0325578
ARKANSAS: FLOOD CAMP, 1937. A young girl in a camp for white flood refugees at Forrest City, Arkansas. Photograph by Walker Evans, February 1937. Copyright: xGRANGERx xGRANGERx 0325577
ARKANSAS: FLOOD CAMP, 1937. A family moving into a camp for white flood refugees at Forrest City, Arkansas. Photograph by Walker Evans, February 1937. Copyright: xGRANGERx xGRANGERx 0325576
ARKANSAS: REFUGEE CAMP. View of the camp for flood refugees in Forrest City, Arkansas. Photograph by Edwin Locke or Walker Evans, March 1937. Copyright: xGRANGERx xGRANGERx 0325262
ARKANSAS: REFUGEE, 1937. Flood refugees in a temporary infirmary operated by the Red Cross at Forrest City, Arkansas. Photographed by Walker Evans, February 1937. Copyright: xGRANGERx xGRANGERx 0324894
RED CROSS INFIRMARY, 1937. Sick flood refugees in the Red Cross temporary infirmary at a flood refugee camp in Forrest City, Arkansas. Photograph by Walker Evans, February 1937. Copyright: xGRANGERx xGRANGERx 0323372
FLOOD REFUGEES, 1937. People waiting in a food line at a flood refugee camp in Forrest City, Arkansas. Photograph by Walker Evans, February 1937. Copyright: xGRANGERx xGRANGERx 0323350
FLOOD REFUGEES, 1937. Flood refugees being fed at Tent City, near Shawneetown, Illinois. Photograph by Walker Evans, April 1937. Copyright: xGRANGERx xGRANGERx 0323292
INDEPENDENCE DAY, 1935. Women at an Independence Day celebration in Terra Alta, West Virginia. Photograph by Walker Evans, 1935. Copyright: xGRANGERx xGRANGERx 0268440
EVANS: NEW YORK CITY, 1938. Children playing on 61st Street in New York City. Photograph by Walker Evans, 1938. Copyright: xGRANGERx xGRANGERx 0268410
PENNSYLVANIA: WORKER, 1935. Portrait of a carpenter in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. Photograph by Walker Evans, 1935. Copyright: xGRANGERx xGRANGERx 0268404
EVANS: NEW YORK CITY, 1938. The elevated train tracks along 2nd Avenue at 61st Street in New York, New York. Photograph by Walker Evans, 1938. Copyright: xGRANGERx xGRANGERx 0268398
EVANS: NEW YORK, 1938. Clotheslines hung between apartment buildings on 61st Street, between 1st and 3rd Avenues in New York, New York. Photograph by Walker Evans, 1938. Copyright: xGRANGERx xGRANGERx 0268354
EVANS: NEW YORK, 1938. Street signs on the corner of 61st Street and 1st Avenue in New York, New York. Photograph by Walker Evans, 1938. Copyright: xGRANGERx xGRANGERx 0268352
EVANS: NEW YORK, 1938. Children playing on 61st Street between 1st and 3rd Avenues, New York, New York. Photograph by Walker Evans, 1938. Copyright: xGRANGERx xGRANGERx 0268351
EVANS: NEW YORK, 1938. A woman sitting in window of her apartment on 61st Street between 1st and 3rd Avenues, New York, New York. Photograph by Walker Evans, 1938. Copyright: xGRANGERx xGRANGERx 0268350
NEW ORLEANS: THEATER, 1935. Liberty Theatre on Saint Charles Street in New Orleans, Louisiana. Photograph by Walker Evans, 1935. Copyright: xGRANGERx xGRANGERx 0268316
WEST VIRGINIA: HOME, 1935. Interior of unemployed man s house, Morgantown, West Virginia. Photograph by Walker Evans in July 1935. Copyright: xGRANGERx xGRANGERx 0120464
SHARECROPPER, c1935. Bud Fields sitting in his cotton patch in Hale County, Alabama. Photograph by Walker Evans in c1935-36. Copyright: xGRANGERx xGRANGERx 0120331
ALABAMA: BOOTBLACKS, 1935. African American bootblacks in front of a shoeshop in Selma, Alabama. Photograph by Walker Evans by December 1935. Copyright: xGRANGERx xGRANGERx 0120326
GEORGIA: MAIN STREET, 1936. Aerial view of Main Street, Macon, Georgia. Photograph by Walker Evans in March 1936. Copyright: xGRANGERx xGRANGERx 0120324
MIGRANT FAMILY, 1936. A migrant mother sitting in the doorway with her children in Hale County, Alabama. Photograph by Walker Evans in 1936. Copyright: xGRANGERx xGRANGERx 0120323
FLOOD REFUGEES, 1937. African Americans in line at mealtime in a flood refugee temporary infirmary operated by the Red Cross at Forrest City, Arkansas. Photograph by Walker Evans in February 1937. Copyright: xGRANGERx xGRANGERx 0120219
ARKANSAS: REFUGEE, 1937. Household goods of an African American flood refugee in a temporary infirmary operated by the Red Cross at Forrest City, Arkansas. Photograph by Walker Evans in February 1937. Copyright: xGRANGERx xGRANGERx 0120213
EVANS: GARAGE, 1936. Garage at Atlanta, Georgia. Photographed by Walker Evans, 1936. Copyright: xGRANGERx xGRANGERx 0099015
BARBERSHOPS, 1936. A row of African American barbershops in Vicksburg, Mississippi. Photograph, by Walker Evans, 1936. Copyright: xGRANGERx xGRANGERx 0030398
ALABAMA: HOUSING, 1936. Steelmill workers company housing with outhouses at the Republic Steel Company, Birmingham, Alabama. Photograph by Walker Evans in March 1936. Copyright: xGRANGERx xGRANGERx 0029086
MISSISSIPPI: VICKSBURG. Street scene in Vicksburg, Mississippi. Photograph by Walker Evans, 1936. Copyright: xGRANGERx xGRANGERx 0029085
African Americans and houses. Atlanta, Georgia, 1936 (b w photo) 5894998 African Americans and houses. Atlanta, Georgia, 1936 (b w photo) by Evans, Walker (1903-75); Private Collection. Copyright: xBridgemanxImagesx 5894998
County seat of Hale County, Alabama, c.1936 (b w photo) 3666516 County seat of Hale County, Alabama, c.1936 (b w photo) by Evans, Walker (1903-75); Private Collection; (add.info.: Photograph possibly taken for the U.S. Resettlement Administration: a New Deal U.S. federal agency that, between April 1935 and December 1936, relocated struggling urban and rural families to communities planned by the federal government. ). Copyright: xBridgemanxImagesx 3666516
Negro barber shop in Atlanta, Georgia, 1936 (b w photo) 3666505 Negro barber shop in Atlanta, Georgia, 1936 (b w photo) by Evans, Walker (1903-75); Private Collection; (add.info.: Photograph possibly taken for the U.S. Resettlement Administration: a New Deal U.S. federal agency that, between April 1935 and December 1936, relocated struggling urban and rural families to communities planned by the federal government.). Copyright: xBridgemanxImagesx 3666505
Sidewalk scene in Alabama, 1936 (b w photo) 3666460 Sidewalk scene in Alabama, 1936 (b w photo) by Evans, Walker (1903-75); Private Collection; (add.info.: Photograph possibly taken for the U.S. Resettlement Administration: a New Deal U.S. federal agency that, between April 1935 and December 1936, relocated struggling urban and rural families to communities planned by the federal government. ). Copyright: xBridgemanxImagesx 3666460
Tengle children in Hale County, Alabama, 1936 (b w photo) 3666454 Tengle children in Hale County, Alabama, 1936 (b w photo) by Evans, Walker (1903-75); Private Collection; (add.info.: Photograph possibly taken for the U.S. Resettlement Administration: a New Deal U.S. federal agency that, between April 1935 and December 1936, relocated struggling urban and rural families to communities planned by the federal government. ). Copyright: xBridgemanxImagesx 3666454
Black american in the lineup for food at mealtime in the camp for flood refugees, Forrest City, Arkansas, 1937 (b w photo) 3666453 Black american in the lineup for food at mealtime in the camp for flood refugees, Forrest City, Arkansas, 1937 (b w photo) by Evans, Walker (1903-75); Private Collection; (add.info.: Photograph taken for the U.S. Resettlement Administration: a New Deal U.S. federal agency that, between April 1935 and December 1936, relocated struggling urban and rural families to communities planned by the federal government.). Copyright: xBridgemanxImagesx 3666453
Unloading the household goods of a family who is being moved into the camp for white flood refugees at Forrest City, Arkansas, 1937 (b w photo) 3666449 Unloading the household goods of a family who is being moved into the camp for white flood refugees at Forrest City, Arkansas, 1937 (b w photo) by Evans, Walker (1903-75); Private Collection; (add.info.: Photograph taken for the U.S. Resettlement Administration: a New Deal U.S. federal agency that, between April 1935 and December 1936, relocated struggling urban and rural families to communities planned by the federal government. ). Copyright: xBridgemanxImagesx 3666449
Unloading household goods of a family of white flood refugees in camp at Forrest City, Arkansas, 1937 (b w photo) 3666448 Unloading household goods of a family of white flood refugees in camp at Forrest City, Arkansas, 1937 (b w photo) by Evans, Walker (1903-75); Private Collection; (add.info.: Photograph taken for the U.S. Resettlement Administration: a New Deal U.S. federal agency that, between April 1935 and December 1936, relocated struggling urban and rural families to communities planned by the federal government. ). Copyright: xBridgemanxImagesx 3666448
Vaccination in the camp for Negro flood refugees at Marianna, Arkansas 3666441 Vaccination in the camp for Negro flood refugees at Marianna, Arkansas by Evans, Walker (1903-75); Private Collection; (add.info.: Photograph taken for the U.S. Resettlement Administration: a New Deal U.S. federal agency that, between April 1935 and December 1936, relocated struggling urban and rural families to communities planned by the federal government.). Copyright: xBridgemanxImagesx 3666441
The kitchen in the camp for white flood refugees at Forrest City, Arkansas, 1937 (b w photo) 3666440 The kitchen in the camp for white flood refugees at Forrest City, Arkansas, 1937 (b w photo) by Evans, Walker (1903-75); Private Collection; (add.info.: Photograph taken for the U.S. Resettlement Administration: a New Deal U.S. federal agency that, between April 1935 and December 1936, relocated struggling urban and rural families to communities planned by the federal government. ). Copyright: xBridgemanxImagesx 3666440
African Americans in the lineup for food at mealtime in the camp for flood refugees at Forrest City, Arkansas, 1937 (b w photo) 3666438 African Americans in the lineup for food at mealtime in the camp for flood refugees at Forrest City, Arkansas, 1937 (b w photo) by Evans, Walker (1903-75); Private Collection; (add.info.: Photograph taken for the U.S. Resettlement Administration: a New Deal U.S. federal agency that, between April 1935 and December 1936, relocated struggling urban and rural families to communities planned by the federal government.). Copyright: xBridgemanxImagesx 3666438
African Americans in the lineup for food at mealtime in the flood refugee camp, Forrest City, Arkansas 3666436 African Americans in the lineup for food at mealtime in the flood refugee camp, Forrest City, Arkansas by Evans, Walker (1903-75); Private Collection; (add.info.: Photograph taken for the U.S. Resettlement Administration: a New Deal U.S. federal agency that, between April 1935 and December 1936, relocated struggling urban and rural families to communities planned by the federal government.). Copyright: xBridgemanxImagesx 3666436
African Americans in the lineup for food at mealtime in the camp for flood refugees, Forrest City, Arkansas, 1937 (b w photo) 3666435 African Americans in the lineup for food at mealtime in the camp for flood refugees, Forrest City, Arkansas, 1937 (b w photo) by Evans, Walker (1903-75); Private Collection; (add.info.: Photograph taken for the U.S. Resettlement Administration: a New Deal U.S. federal agency that, between April 1935 and December 1936, relocated struggling urban and rural families to communities planned by the federal government.). Copyright: xBridgemanxImagesx 3666435
The Bessie Levee, along a subsidiary of the Mississippi River, augmented with sand bags during the flood near Tiptonville, Tennessee, 1937 (b w photo) 3666434 The Bessie Levee, along a subsidiary of the Mississippi River, augmented with sand bags during the flood near Tiptonville, Tennessee, 1937 (b w photo) by Evans, Walker (1903-75); Private Collection; (add.info.: Photograph taken for the U.S. Resettlement Administration: a New Deal U.S. federal agency that, between April 1935 and December 1936, relocated struggling urban and rural families to communities planned by the federal government. ). Copyright: xBridgemanxImagesx 3666434
Sunday singing, 1936 (b w photo) 3666411 Sunday singing, 1936 (b w photo) by Evans, Walker (1903-75); Private Collection; (add.info.: Frank Tengle, an Alabama sharecropper, and family singing hymns near Moundville, Hale County. Photograph taken for the U.S. Resettlement Administration: a New Deal U.S. federal agency that, between April 1935 and December 1936, relocated struggling urban and rural families to communities planned by the federal government. ). Copyright: xBridgemanxImagesx 3666411
Vicksburg african-american men and shop front. Mississippi 1936 2683650 Vicksburg african-american men and shop front. Mississippi 1936 by Evans, Walker (1903-75); (add.info.: United States. Farm Security Administration Evans, Walker, 1903-1975 (Photographer)); PVDE. Copyright: xPVDEx xBridgemanxImagesx 2683650
African Americans waiting for food in the Forrest City, Arkansas, 1937 1128855 African Americans waiting for food in the Forrest City, Arkansas, 1937 by Evans, Walker (1903-75); Private Collection; (add.info.: Walker Evans Farm Security Administration B&W - Office of War Information Photograph Collection). Copyright: xBridgemanxImagesx 1128855

Images in this collection

Group of People at Mealtime in Flood Refugee Camp, Forrest City, Arkansas, USA, Walker Evans, U.S. Resettlement Administration, March 1936 Copyright: xCircaxImagesx ghi-circa02307

HAVANA: COAL LOADER, 1933. Portrait of a coal loader in Havana, Cuba. Photograph by Walker Evans, 1933. Copyright: xGRANGERx xGRANGERx 0908638

CIVIL WAR MONUMENT, 1936. Vicksburg Battlefield Monument depicting Brigadier General Lloyd Tilghman, killed 16 May 1863 during the Battle of Champion Hill, Mississippi. Photograph by Walker Evans, 1936. Copyright: xGRANGERx xGRANGERx 0908636

FLOOD REFUGEES, 1937. The kitchen tent at a flood refugee camp in Forrest City, Arkansas. Photograph by Walker Evans, February 1937. Copyright: xGRANGERx xGRANGERx 0325856

ARKANSAS: FLOOD CAMP, 1937. Washing up facilities in a camp for white flood refugees at Forrest City, Arkansas. Photograph by Walker Evans, February 1937. Copyright: xGRANGERx xGRANGERx 0325579

ARKANSAS: FLOOD CAMP, 1937. Setting up a tent in a camp for white flood refugees at Forrest City, Arkansas. Photograph by Walker Evans, February 1937. Copyright: xGRANGERx xGRANGERx 0325578

ARKANSAS: FLOOD CAMP, 1937. A young girl in a camp for white flood refugees at Forrest City, Arkansas. Photograph by Walker Evans, February 1937. Copyright: xGRANGERx xGRANGERx 0325577

ARKANSAS: FLOOD CAMP, 1937. A family moving into a camp for white flood refugees at Forrest City, Arkansas. Photograph by Walker Evans, February 1937. Copyright: xGRANGERx xGRANGERx 0325576

ARKANSAS: REFUGEE CAMP. View of the camp for flood refugees in Forrest City, Arkansas. Photograph by Edwin Locke or Walker Evans, March 1937. Copyright: xGRANGERx xGRANGERx 0325262

ARKANSAS: REFUGEE, 1937. Flood refugees in a temporary infirmary operated by the Red Cross at Forrest City, Arkansas. Photographed by Walker Evans, February 1937. Copyright: xGRANGERx xGRANGERx 0324894

RED CROSS INFIRMARY, 1937. Sick flood refugees in the Red Cross temporary infirmary at a flood refugee camp in Forrest City, Arkansas. Photograph by Walker Evans, February 1937. Copyright: xGRANGERx xGRANGERx 0323372

FLOOD REFUGEES, 1937. People waiting in a food line at a flood refugee camp in Forrest City, Arkansas. Photograph by Walker Evans, February 1937. Copyright: xGRANGERx xGRANGERx 0323350

FLOOD REFUGEES, 1937. Flood refugees being fed at Tent City, near Shawneetown, Illinois. Photograph by Walker Evans, April 1937. Copyright: xGRANGERx xGRANGERx 0323292

INDEPENDENCE DAY, 1935. Women at an Independence Day celebration in Terra Alta, West Virginia. Photograph by Walker Evans, 1935. Copyright: xGRANGERx xGRANGERx 0268440

EVANS: NEW YORK CITY, 1938. Children playing on 61st Street in New York City. Photograph by Walker Evans, 1938. Copyright: xGRANGERx xGRANGERx 0268410

PENNSYLVANIA: WORKER, 1935. Portrait of a carpenter in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. Photograph by Walker Evans, 1935. Copyright: xGRANGERx xGRANGERx 0268404

EVANS: NEW YORK CITY, 1938. The elevated train tracks along 2nd Avenue at 61st Street in New York, New York. Photograph by Walker Evans, 1938. Copyright: xGRANGERx xGRANGERx 0268398

EVANS: NEW YORK, 1938. Clotheslines hung between apartment buildings on 61st Street, between 1st and 3rd Avenues in New York, New York. Photograph by Walker Evans, 1938. Copyright: xGRANGERx xGRANGERx 0268354

EVANS: NEW YORK, 1938. Street signs on the corner of 61st Street and 1st Avenue in New York, New York. Photograph by Walker Evans, 1938. Copyright: xGRANGERx xGRANGERx 0268352

EVANS: NEW YORK, 1938. Children playing on 61st Street between 1st and 3rd Avenues, New York, New York. Photograph by Walker Evans, 1938. Copyright: xGRANGERx xGRANGERx 0268351

EVANS: NEW YORK, 1938. A woman sitting in window of her apartment on 61st Street between 1st and 3rd Avenues, New York, New York. Photograph by Walker Evans, 1938. Copyright: xGRANGERx xGRANGERx 0268350

NEW ORLEANS: THEATER, 1935. Liberty Theatre on Saint Charles Street in New Orleans, Louisiana. Photograph by Walker Evans, 1935. Copyright: xGRANGERx xGRANGERx 0268316

WEST VIRGINIA: HOME, 1935. Interior of unemployed man s house, Morgantown, West Virginia. Photograph by Walker Evans in July 1935. Copyright: xGRANGERx xGRANGERx 0120464

SHARECROPPER, c1935. Bud Fields sitting in his cotton patch in Hale County, Alabama. Photograph by Walker Evans in c1935-36. Copyright: xGRANGERx xGRANGERx 0120331

ALABAMA: BOOTBLACKS, 1935. African American bootblacks in front of a shoeshop in Selma, Alabama. Photograph by Walker Evans by December 1935. Copyright: xGRANGERx xGRANGERx 0120326

GEORGIA: MAIN STREET, 1936. Aerial view of Main Street, Macon, Georgia. Photograph by Walker Evans in March 1936. Copyright: xGRANGERx xGRANGERx 0120324

MIGRANT FAMILY, 1936. A migrant mother sitting in the doorway with her children in Hale County, Alabama. Photograph by Walker Evans in 1936. Copyright: xGRANGERx xGRANGERx 0120323

FLOOD REFUGEES, 1937. African Americans in line at mealtime in a flood refugee temporary infirmary operated by the Red Cross at Forrest City, Arkansas. Photograph by Walker Evans in February 1937. Copyright: xGRANGERx xGRANGERx 0120219

ARKANSAS: REFUGEE, 1937. Household goods of an African American flood refugee in a temporary infirmary operated by the Red Cross at Forrest City, Arkansas. Photograph by Walker Evans in February 1937. Copyright: xGRANGERx xGRANGERx 0120213

EVANS: GARAGE, 1936. Garage at Atlanta, Georgia. Photographed by Walker Evans, 1936. Copyright: xGRANGERx xGRANGERx 0099015

BARBERSHOPS, 1936. A row of African American barbershops in Vicksburg, Mississippi. Photograph, by Walker Evans, 1936. Copyright: xGRANGERx xGRANGERx 0030398

ALABAMA: HOUSING, 1936. Steelmill workers company housing with outhouses at the Republic Steel Company, Birmingham, Alabama. Photograph by Walker Evans in March 1936. Copyright: xGRANGERx xGRANGERx 0029086

MISSISSIPPI: VICKSBURG. Street scene in Vicksburg, Mississippi. Photograph by Walker Evans, 1936. Copyright: xGRANGERx xGRANGERx 0029085

African Americans and houses. Atlanta, Georgia, 1936 (b w photo) 5894998 African Americans and houses. Atlanta, Georgia, 1936 (b w photo) by Evans, Walker (1903-75); Private Collection. Copyright: xBridgemanxImagesx 5894998